Do you use LaTex...

[WAMBST]

Is there somebody here using LaTex to create newsletters and e-books?
Do you think it's a good time investment to learn to use it, or do you prefer to use WYSIWYG software?
Thanks for your answers and points of view...

 

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[mt_myke]

Is there somebody here using LaTex to create newsletters and e-books?
Do you think it's a good time investment to learn to use it, or do you prefer to use WYSIWYG software?
Thanks for your answers and points of view...

Wow! I'm an old school geek and even I don't have enough geek cred to have ever punished myself through learning LaTex. If you need to create large mathematical formulas it's probably worth your time... that seems to be one thing that no other tool can do as well. If your layout needs are more modest I'd probably look at something else first.

 

[DaRK9]

I use it for legal documents. It's really useful for anything printed that you need to look official. I wouldn't bother for e-only publications.

 

[Digamma]

I use it (well, mostly, used) for technical papers. I don't see any reason to waste time learning latex to format ebooks, as there are more specialized and easy tools for the job.

 

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[Delmania]

Is there somebody here using LaTex to create newsletters and e-books?
Do you think it's a good time investment to learn to use it, or do you prefer to use WYSIWYG software?
Thanks for your answers and points of view...

Look at Scrivener. LaTex is great, but it's overkill.

 

[Nick314]

There have been free wysiwyg latex editors for years. Now there are even free, really good, online wysiwyg latex editors.
But in all honesty, latex is not that hard to learn, extremely flexible, and well worth the effort.
Historically there's only maybe one or two reference books tops that you'd ever really want to read, and now there's really good online references and tutorials for it, so you may not even need the books anymore.

 

[WAMBST]

I use it for legal documents. It's really useful for anything printed that you need to look official. I wouldn't bother for e-only publications.

Thanks... that's also a big purpose for me...

 

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[WAMBST]

Look at Scrivener. LaTex is great, but it's overkill.

Sure I will try it... thanks. I will keep an eye on LaTex for technical purposes and official printable documents later, but I will start with something more comfortable...

 

[WAMBST]

There have been free wysiwyg latex editors for years. Now there are even free, really good, online wysiwyg latex editors.
But in all honesty, latex is not that hard to learn, extremely flexible, and well worth the effort.
Historically there's only maybe one or two reference books tops that you'd ever really want to read, and now there's really good online references and tutorials for it, so you may not even need the books anymore.

Thanks a lot... so, I will begin with something lighter and learn LaTex in the same time...

 

[Delmania]

Bear in mind the level of effort to learn LaTex is that of learning a new programming language. You could set up some video training courses and sell them. Turn your learning into a small business.


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[WAMBST]

Bear in mind the level of effort to learn LaTex is that of learning a new programming language. You could set up some video training courses and sell them. Turn your learning into a small business.


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[Delmania]

I love this forum... I couldn't imagine there were a such place on internet. Thanks a lot for your advise, I need to improve my wantrepreneur's mind. It's clearly one better way to learn it and not to lose time at all...

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